If this ancient stone stingray truly is 130,000-year-old sand art, it would predate all other known animal art by 90,000 years.Jan De VynckThe ancient “sculpture” made in sand possibly depicting a stingray. In 2018, a “citizen scientist” discovered a unique, symmetrical rock near Still Bay, South Africa. Upon closer inspection, the stone looked surprisingly similar to a stingray without its tail. After a thorough study, a group of researchers has now published an academic article in the journal Rock Art Research in which they identify the rock as an ancient “sand sculpture” depicting a stingray — and it may be the world’s oldest animal art.

The presence of skull elongations among three Viking Age women in Gotland, Sweden reveals interesting insights about Viking relationships with other Europeans. Johnny Karlsson/SHMAn elongated skull found in Gotland. Over 100 miles south of Stockholm, Sweden sits the island of Gotland. For decades, historians have considered the island an important source of information about Viking culture due to its hundreds of 10th and 11th-century burials. For years, historians recognized body modification as a key piece of Viking culture.

"Introducing the new swastika," the designers proclaimed. Teespring Reclaiming words and symbols — adopting things meant to be offensive, and turning them into something ironically positive — sometimes can be quite effective. This is most definitely not the case with the swastika, which became apparent (as if it wasn’t already) when the U.S. clothing company Teespring featured rainbow-covered Nazi symbols on a new clothing line. The company allows anyone to design their own shirts.

First established in 1918 by a lumber magnate, the Cobb Estate eventually became the subject of rumors about ghosts and aliens in its abandoned "Haunted Forest."Altadena Historical SocietyCobb Estate was built in the early 20th century by lumber magnate Charles Cobb. In Altadena, California, just a few miles north of Pasadena, Cobb Estate once stood on 107 acres of land. Now, it’s a haunted forest — at least, according to those brave enough to set foot in it.

It would be nearly a century following her execution that the mystery surrounding Anastasia Romanov would be finally allowed to rest.On July 17, 1918, the last Czar of Russia Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children were brutally murdered by communist revolutionaries known as the Bolsheviks. Though the Bolsheviks claimed to have murdered the entire family, their bodies had been so marred and later buried in unmarked graves that many speculated the youngest daughter of the five Romanov children, Anastasia, had escaped.